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Game and Story Use

These guys should crop up in any campaign in early modern India - whether as enemy mooks, NPCs or even PCs will depend on the plot and style of your campaign.

(Somewhat unjustly) famous for the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 - also known as the Indian Mutiny in which unrest in some of Britain's client and allied states in India infected a number sepoy and sowar regiments and lead to a mutiny which in turn touched off a nasty civil/colonial war.